haunting

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The ways the siblings cope with their versions of reality are quite different, quite haunting and quite thought-provoking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

“Born in the U.S.A.” is as haunting today to listen to as it was when he first sang it in 1984.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

The Gwangju uprising forms the haunting backdrop to Nobel laureate Han Kang's novel Human Acts.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Since the pandemic, there has been an incredible phenomenon where vulgarity, crude humor and haunting news have gone viral on social-media platforms, creating an entertainment expectation from our representatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Perutz was working on molecular structures, and it was the closest that Watson could get to Wilkins’s image, whose haunting, prophetic shadows he could not get out of his brain.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee